Malvin Carl Teich is an American physicist and computational neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and Boston University. He is also a consultant to government, academia, and private industry, where he serves as an advisor in intellectual-property conflicts. He is the coauthor of Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley, 3rd Ed. 2019, with B. E. A. Saleh), and of Fractal-Based Point Processes (Wiley, 2005, with S. B. Lowen).